DAY 81 Read Joshua 1 through 4.
Today's reading includes Joshua's initiation as the new leader, the episode of the two spies in Jericho, and the dramatic crossing of Jordan.
Memory gem: "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest" (Joshua 1:9).
Thought for today:
In a real Christian home the children have the right to hear the voice of prayer, to hear Father and Mother pray for them, and to be taught to pray. When Robert Burns wrote his famous poem, "The Cotter's Saturday Night," in which he describes the scene of family worship in a humble cottage of Scotland, family prayers were commonplace. Read that wonderful poem again for yourself, and if you can do it with dry eyes, I'll be surprised. A real home should have family worship. It holds Father and Mother together, it makes every home a house of prayer.
When the people of Israel came into the Holy Land, they were instructed to destroy the military fortresses of Jericho. Only one family was saved, a family that lived in a house on the city wall. Here are the instructions to the head of that house. They are found in Joshua 2:18: "Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee."
Let us notice this one point: The folks who came to that home and shut the doors about them in wicked old Jericho were safe when the scarlet thread was in the window. And so every true home is a place of safety when the scarlet thread of Christ's blood is in the window, and where those in charge of the home are Christians whose hope is in the sacrifice of Jesus upon Calvary. When the home is protected by this scarlet thread, there is safety within. Gather the children in, fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and protect them with the scarlet thread of faith in Christ as our Redeemer. That is the only hope of a lost and ruined world, but it is a gloriously sufficient hope.
Today's reading includes Joshua's initiation as the new leader, the episode of the two spies in Jericho, and the dramatic crossing of Jordan.
Memory gem: "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest" (Joshua 1:9).
Thought for today:
In a real Christian home the children have the right to hear the voice of prayer, to hear Father and Mother pray for them, and to be taught to pray. When Robert Burns wrote his famous poem, "The Cotter's Saturday Night," in which he describes the scene of family worship in a humble cottage of Scotland, family prayers were commonplace. Read that wonderful poem again for yourself, and if you can do it with dry eyes, I'll be surprised. A real home should have family worship. It holds Father and Mother together, it makes every home a house of prayer.
When the people of Israel came into the Holy Land, they were instructed to destroy the military fortresses of Jericho. Only one family was saved, a family that lived in a house on the city wall. Here are the instructions to the head of that house. They are found in Joshua 2:18: "Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee."
Let us notice this one point: The folks who came to that home and shut the doors about them in wicked old Jericho were safe when the scarlet thread was in the window. And so every true home is a place of safety when the scarlet thread of Christ's blood is in the window, and where those in charge of the home are Christians whose hope is in the sacrifice of Jesus upon Calvary. When the home is protected by this scarlet thread, there is safety within. Gather the children in, fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and protect them with the scarlet thread of faith in Christ as our Redeemer. That is the only hope of a lost and ruined world, but it is a gloriously sufficient hope.
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